The Board has determined that the veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, including PTSD, is reasonably attributable to service and granted service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: Medical evidence supports a link between the veteran's in-service stressors and his current PTSD symptoms.
- Claimed conditions
- acquired psychiatric disorder to include post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 8, 2006
- Citation
- 0606703
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Decisions by this judge: 1,242 · Granted: 26% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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